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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jurek" data-source="post: 3162304" data-attributes="member: 3357">I am always amazed how slow and complicated is even simplest nature restoration project in England. If a fisherman wants to have native fish or a gamekeeper wants pheasants, they mostly just bring and release them. For reintroducing even small native animal or plant - it seems twice as complicated and ten times longer than cloning a woolly mammoth. I see no objective reason why reintroduction of pine marten could not be a small, cheap project for a local nature group. A month-two of trapping 20 martens in Scotland, vet inspection, drive to England and release, and a season of low-cost monitoring by scats and camera traps.</blockquote>